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>the German police raided the two men's homes, arrested them, and seized their computers with their hard drives unencrypted. Wow, that's some bad opsec.

• mkl 9y ago
  If the computers were actively being used, then the hard drives' contents were at least partly accessible, encrypted or not. Copy everything off before shutting them down.
  • mirimir 9y ago
    Prudent folk have a UPS kill switch within easy reach.
    • woodandsteel 9y ago
      And someone running a darkweb drug site should have really strong home security, like outside video cameras, motion sensors, and alarms on the windows and doors.
      • mirimir 9y ago
        For sure.
  • woodandsteel 9y ago
    Ok, but the article makes it sound like the whole drive was unencrypted. But maybe that was just inexact reporting.